An activist from Extinction Rebellion, October 13, 2020. -

STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

Activists from Extinction Rebellion, an organization that advocates civil disobedience to demand climate action, temporarily blocked the streets of the Ministry of Ecological Transition on Tuesday.

They were evacuated by the police.

At the end of the morning, the activists of the environmental movement blocked the boulevard Saint-Germain and the nearest crossroads by deploying public works ribbons and banners "Ecocidal Ministries" or "now or never".

They sprayed the door and part of the front of the ministry with green paint.

In the rain, some lay down on the asphalt, their hands clinging to each other inside trash cans to be more difficult to dislodge, with the goal of settling for several hours or even days as they l 'had done last year on the Place du Châtelet and the Pont au Change occupied for five days.

A banner on the Eiffel Tower

Very quickly, the police began to intervene, carrying the militants one by one to gather them.

“Mr. Chairman, Minister, we are not on the same side.

(…) Your transition is a lure, ”launched one of the activists over the megaphone, accusing Emmanuel Macron of not wanting to take up the proposals of the Citizen's Convention for the climate.

"Without a massive uprising that can put a stop to 'business as usual', we have no present or future," Extinction Rebellion posted on Twitter.

"It is more than urgent to put the world to the place", name of the action of Tuesday.

Members of Extinction Rebellion began their week-long "international October rebellion" by deploying a banner on Sunday with the inscription "Rebel" ("rebel" or "rebel") on the first floor of the building. Eiffel Tower.

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